Pennsylvania State Police say a fleeing suspect was accidentally run over by a bulldozer as officers responded to a scene on state game lands that contained 10 marijuana plants.

Police say Gregory Longenecker, 51, of Reading, Pennsylvania, was found dead under a bulldozer that an officer and a game commission employee were using to search for him in “thick underbrush” on Monday.

Local police arrived at the scene on state game lands in Berks County, Pennsylvania around 10 a.m. after a game commission employee saw a car “parked well off the road in a field,” State Police said in a release.

Soon after police arrived, two men came out of the underbrush and fled on foot. One was taken into custody and the other, Longenecker, escaped, police say.

State police then arrived and used a helicopter and the bulldozer in their search for Longenecker. The helicopter briefly spotted Longenecker, lost him and communicated his last known position to the bulldozer.

The release describes the death as “accidental.” Longenecker’s body was found “under the rear of the bulldozer.”

A preliminary autopsy found that Longenecker died of traumatic injuries, the Reading Eagle reports.

Trooper David Beohm, a public information officer for the Pennsylvania State Police, confirmed to USA TODAY that 10 marijuana plants were found at the scene.

The other suspect — David Brook Light, 54 of Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania — was charged with drug offenses and trespassing, police say.

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